Comment by samstave

I really like the idea of permacomputing.

WTF happened to all the THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of machines I deployed to datacenters over the decades? Where are the F5 load balancers I spent $40,000 on per box in 1999?

I know that when we did Lucas' presidio migration, tens of million$ of SGI boxes went to the ripper. That sucks.

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All these machines could be used to house a 'slow internet' or 'limited interenet'

Imagine when we graduate our wealth gap to include the information gap - where the poor only have access to an internet indexed to September 2021 - oh wait...

But really - that is WHAT AI will bring: an information gap: only the wealthy companies will have real-time access to information on the internet - and all the poor will have outdated information that will have already have been mined for its value.

think of how HFT network cards with insane packet buffers, and private fiber lines gave hedgies the microsecond advantages on trading stocks...

Thats basically what AI will power - the hyper-accelerated exploitation of information on the web via AI - but the common man, will be releagated to obsolete AI, while the @sama people of the world build off-planet bunkers.